US POLITICS SPRING 2011: Let's just call off this country.

kinda mystified that this happened...?

Schumer is such a douchebag

I know I know, NEWSFLASH

holy crap!

Even with the defeat, the vote represented a remarkable come-from-behind lobbying campaign by banks to recover from the drubbing they took during the anti-Wall Street atmosphere that pervaded last year. The debit card measure, sponsored by Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, passed last year by a 2-to-1 margin after little debate and no hearings.

can you be drubbed by an atmosphere?

or 'during' one, exactly

an atmosphere is roughly 23 days iirc

"atmosphere" = popular outrage fadde into memory

Schumer's SOLE constituency is Wall Street and the major banks. I'd run against him if there weren't photos of me floating around.

photos of you and Giuliani, presumably

the state in which i go to school has had a pretty good year: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/nyregion/democratic-rule-remakes-connecticuts-legislative-face.html

huma abedin is pregnant

this is all a really a john waters movie isn't it?

lol daria otm

SHIT my friend was interviewing JW today, could have got an opinion had this occurred to any of us yesterday.

oh god jon williams is wrapped up in this??

LULZ.

I mean I'm sure it can and will get even more low down but.. Suzy have yr friend ask a follow up!

Earlier today, a photograph resembling one that I had withheld from publication in the Weinergate saga was released without my knowledge or permission.

Prior to the publication of our story on BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com this past Monday morning, it was necessary to show the pictures I had received from our source to several news producers, including several at major news networks, to prove that the additional material I described really did exist, which some have continued to doubt.

This morning, I showed a photograph, which our source claims Weiner sent her, to radio hosts “Opie and Anthony” of the Sirius XM radio network on my mobile device. Somehow, without my knowledge or permission, apparently a picture was taken of my mobile device, and subsequently published by Opie (Gregg Hughes) on Twitter.

His co-host, Anthony (Anthony Cumia), stated today:

“In regards to the photo of Anthony Weiner that was leaked by members of The Opie And Anthony show on 6/8, I want to make it clear that Andrew Breitbart had no knowledge that this photo was being made public. A phone with the photo was being displayed and a camera in the studio caught it. It was then uploaded to twitter [sic], again, without Andrew Breitbarts [sic] knowledge.”

I regret that this occurred.

cool man thanks

pic is of a dong btw

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/international/photosvideos/photos/the-dugong-or-sea-cow-3.jpg

grotesque

david vitter, family values asshole, paid hookers to fuck him. "you lie!" anthony weiner and the new media though

http://people-press.org/2011/06/07/more-blame-wars-than-domestic-spending-or-tax-cuts-for-nations-debt/

the american people keeping themselves informed, as always

http://people-press.org/files/2011/06/deficit-6.png

not really sure where to put this but

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/middleeast/09intel.html?_r=1&hp

The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.

You'd file it under: more good news! The only thing better than overt elective war with no clear goal in a Muslim country is covert war! Only good things can come from this! Let's keep this going, USA!!!

To be fair, at least the targets in Yemen are purportedly well within the purview of the War on Terror (TM).

awlaki & co in yemen were responsible for 9/11?

God, that shite about "reduce foreign aid" always gets my angry up. Foreign aid is LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of the Federal budget, you assholes, and over the years it's accomplished things like, oh, I don't know, helping eliminate horrifying diseases.

x-post Didn't you get the memo that they are responsible for future 9/11? Start stockpiling water and duct tape now.

"Foreign aid" = covert activity

phrases like "exploiting a growing power vacuum" seriously put the fear on me

I do appreciate the ironies of living in a country that affords the freedom to publish a front page story touting nefarious covert activity. Though it always makes me wonder: if this covert shit is being reported, then what kind of double secret covert shit is not being reported?

if Wikileaks has proved anything it's that nobody cares about secret shit. Oh wait, we knew that.

We secretly care.

eh, not really

it's not like people haven't known about this forever but as long as most people have enough to eat the government can do whatever it wants, period, forever, anywhere, in any country, imo

hey remember back in 2004 when internet douches the nation over were threatening to leave the US when W got re-elected? i'm think i'm becoming one o those douches.

but W isn't running in '12.

there are lots of good reasons to leave the US in 2011 that relate to W being re-elected in 2004

oh alfred you know what i mean

What country is the same or better off than it was in 2004?

We're all fucked.

i'm thinking more along the lines of a country where my grasp of the language is so tenuous that i cant really follow the news

^^^ me watching cable news

lol

What country is the same or better off than it was in 2004?

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 9, 2011 10:29 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tunisia! egypt!

thats about it though

how's Argentina these days?

A President Palin is the only thing that could truly get me to jump ship, but that won't happen, thank goodness (though her constant implicit campaigning makes me neurotic). Also, it's really hard to move to another country.

Australia's doing OK, isn't it?

i just want to be warm and relatively safe

well, the warm part will be pretty easy

What country is the same or better off than it was in 2004?

Cleveland Indians Nation